LACMA Will Time-Share "The Clock" with Las Vegas

Still from Christian Marclay's The Clock (2010), appropriating Harold Lloyd's Safety Last! (1923) 

The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that the Las Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA) will open a "media lab" in spring 2026. This will be a small structure, with 6500 sf of exhibition space, intended to build enthusiasm for the much larger, Francis Kéré-designed museum previously announced. Like the future museum, the Media Lab will be programmed with work from LACMA's collection. Among the first loans is Christian Marclay's The Clock, the popular synchronized supercut of clocks in old movies and TV shows.

LVMA has no collection of its own. Its one-sided art sharing arrangement with LACMA—endorsed by late founder Elaine Wynne and LACMA director Michael Govan—has generated more enthusiasm in Sin City than Los Angeles. A Magritte that's in Las Vegas can't simultaneously be in L.A. But it's easier to make a case for time-sharing video art. The Clock is one of six editions, all owned by museums. LACMA has shown its copy of The Clock three times, for several-month runs in 2011, 2012, and 2015.